Get an NVQ While You Work and get the next CSCS Card

Getting a Construction NVQ is a great way to get ahead in the industry and it can also be done without missing a single day of work. Getting an NVQ will mean you qualify for a better CSCS Card and this is vital to your future job prospects. The construction industry is becoming increasingly hostile to workers without a CSCS Card and it is very likely you will be unable to find work without one.

An NVQ and a CSCS Card show employers that you are competent at your job, that you can do it safely and that you are committed to it. Competence and commitment are probably the two things most valued by employers and an NVQ and CSCS Card shows them. You will be assessed on site so you will not lose any pay, you cannot fail a Construction NVQ because if you do not get enough credits you can simply organise more assessment and keep building your portfolio. This is a great opportunity to take the next step in your career.
For more information call us on 0203 151 1004 and get the NVQ and CSCS Card you need for the job you want.

Work in Exciting Construction Projects in London

It is a very exciting time to start work in the Construction Industry in London. There are several major projects which are underway in the UK capital. These include large-scale building works for the Olympic Games which are coming up in 2012 as well some construction projects on some incredibly modern skyscrapers which will revolutionise the London skyline.
While it is a great time to be working in construction, and also a very good time to be looking for work on fascinating construction projects there are certain criteria that employees will be looking for when they hire workers for these projects. Chief among these will be that the employee has a CSCS card. CSCS cards prove that the worker is competent to industry standards and has a good knowledge of Health and Safety procedures. At this time about 80% of building sites in London and the rest of the UK require all workers to have a CSCS card and this number is growing.
No matter what level you want enter construction in London at a CSCS card will be your route into the industry. The first step to getting a CSCS Card is to take a CSCS Heath & Safety test in London. After this you will need to take the correct NVQ for your skill set and you will qualify for a CSCS card. Once you get a CSCS card you will be qualified to work on these London construction sites.
Let Construction Support Line (call 0203 051 1004 for professional advice) make sure you get your Health & Safety Test, CSCS card and NVQ in the shortest amount of time possible, don’t waste time or money getting the wrong card!

Quality Britain Skyscraper

The Shard: Building Process

In London have started building a new 72-storeyed skyscraper The Shard which name the grandiose project in the history of architecture. Supervises a birth of a new skyscraper the legendary Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

London Bridge Quarter by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Very tall "Shard" will settle down on the Thames near to the well-known London bridge and becomes a part of a new complex the London Bridge Quarter.

According to a global tendency of multipurpose buildings, The Shard offices will take place for: luxury hotels with deep cleaning of apartments, hair salons & Spas, various restaurants, exotic bars, prestigious night club, fitness club, boutiques and showrooms, and other entertaining centers.

According to assurance of the chief engineer of the skyscraper, the architectural project will grow to 306 meters (1,004 foots), and, most likely, will be the highest skyscraper in the Western Europe.

Besides it, cleaning service London and other municipal works will be executed with use of modern ecological standards, thus the architectural project propagandizes new standards of quality at building of modern skyscrapers.

Smart Balance of the Nature & Modern Architectural Technologies

The Architectural Prototype

According to founders of this futuristic project — the Australian architectural studio «Laboratory for Visionary Architecture» (LAVA), the «Home of the Future» represents itself as a metaphor concluding sense of the vital issues of our time.

Futuristic Project of the Future

The futuristic prototype of architecture of the future, urged to balance requirements of the person and the nature into uniform ultra-modern Eco-system. The theme of mutual relations of the person with environment and modern technologies finds development in the huge dome-shaped structure. Construction of huge architectural structure will be begun in the end of 2011 in Beijing (China).

Here will be presented 15 various samples of a micro-climate the planets recreating characteristic environment for them with integrated information technology which carry out function of the electronic vein providing a comfortable life.
The dome-shaped ceiling of structure is made from transparent plastic cover «ETFE». This modern technological material is fine alternative to traditional glass, because has twice smaller weight, lower cost and ability to pass an ultraviolet light. Last characteristic is the big advantage for formation of winter gardens and greenhouses. Besides, the ETFE is highly elastic and steady against temperature differences.
At the moment, the project Home of the Future participates in the architectural exhibition which is passing in Sydney (Australia) from now on and till March, 31st. Authors of innovative building project will present: specifications, real 3D-models, computer visualization and demonstration animation.

Dreams become a reality

The Royal Conservatory of Music has embodied dream of creation of the Educational centre. Within the limits of the project there is begun realisation of one of the offered general plans — restoration of two historical buildings.

Koerner Hall in Toronto

Koerner Hall became result of close cooperation between architects and sound producers. In a hall flexible and excellent acoustic atmosphere for classical music, a jazz, an opera, lectures and films is created. The scene is designed so that on it the most various professional collectives, students and recognised masters could act.

The Royal Conservatory of Music

The glass pavilion is placed on the powerful brick base and removed from a historical building. The space between the old and new has been closed, the new foot route thus was generated.

New building of embassy of the USA in London

“A modern, friendly, safe, economic, innovative building for all times”, — so judges have responded about the project. Project Kieran Timberlake is recognized by the winner of competition of design projects of Embassy of the USA in London. The Design Project of a bureau from Philadelphia becomes a new architectural label on the bank of Thames.

The most corresponding design

In total from 37 architectural demands it has been chosen 9 which have entered into a short list. The chosen design is recognized the most corresponding to the requirements specified in the conditions of competition.

The in itself project represents the simple transparent box surrounded with landscape territory with paths at various levels. Since the second floor, the building facade is issued by protection against the sun, and also against external sights. Building terms (under the plan): 2013-2017 years.

U.S. Embassy Flythrough

Mecanoo have constructed theatre and the congress centre

The new congress center and the theatre designed by Dutch bureau Mecanoo, reminds the huge UFO which has landed on the Spanish earth.

Llotja de Lleida

On a building facade there is a tape of windows, on a roof the garden with twisted plants is broken. The project is called Llotja de Lleida.

In registration of interiors of theater silhouettes of trees were used. Walls in a building are issued by white plaster, the floor is made of marble or a tree.

New theatre in Lleida

Building characteristics: the total area of 37,500 sq.m., theatre on 1000 spectator places, this premise also can function as the congress center, two more congress halls on 400 and 200 places, the multipurpose premise, two foyers, 9,500 sq.m. of a parking, 15,325 more m.sq. — the area of office and 2,591 m.sq. — trading premises.

Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne

New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational center will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.

Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.

Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.

Rolex Awards

It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.

Coop Himmelb(l)au will receive a prize for the future tower

Austrian architectural bureau Coop Himmelb(l)au will receive the award for ecological stability, Sustainability Award in 2010 year, within the limits of Architectural Review Future Project Awards which will organize the world summit of real estate MIPIM.

The Viennese prickle

The jury has awarded a tower covered with metal "skin" which architects have designed for the Viennese area Erdberg.

«Town Town»

The building is called “Town Town”. The design height will make 30 floors. The award will be awarded on March, 17th at official ceremony which will take place in Cannes.

The project of head office CBE

German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.

Unusual way of the organisation

Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organization of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

At ceremony of rewarding of the architects who have presented the project — the winner of the tender, the president of bank has declared, that «the new approach to building and use of the main offices, the interesting and modern structure, planning with the account of last achievements of architecture and use of harmless technologies — all shows it, that the bank of Ethiopia leaves on the international level on all indicators».

Building Peter Mokaba Stadium is finished

At fans of football now on one joyful news more... Building Peter Mokaba Stadium — stadium in the city of Polokwane, capital of a province of Limpopo, the republic of South Africa — the basic platform for World championship carrying out on football 2010 Is finished!

Champion stadium in the republic of South Africa

Capacity of stadium: 45,000 places. Stadium forms are cast by flora traditional for district, namely, a plant a baobab. Elements of a design of a roof fasten special huge ramps. And durability of a design has been reached for the account of repetition of elements. Companies AFL Architects and local practice Prism also had been developed mechanisms of support of a roof.

Football stadium in Polokwane

Under the basic tribunes there are halls for a press — conferences, a parking and auxiliary premises.

Art pavilion from company Carmody Groarke

English architects of company Carmody Groarke have finished pavilion building in London.

Eight-metre light-emitting diode columns

The pavilion represents eight-metre columns with light-emitting diode lamps, with a steel three-metre plate on a top (!). The density of placing of columns is non-uniform, and in the centre they and at all are absent, opening the review on the sky.

Pavilion building in London

The idea of a construction was born in 2007 during carrying out of the competition organised by Fund of architecture in English capital. All design of pavilion is addition to the general design of a building to which a construction was an extension, and impracticality of construction gives to the project special utopianism.

The green fruitful project

Harvest Green Project became the winner of the competition initiated by the authorities of Vancouver. Architects Romses Architects have offered the decision, actual in the conditions of climatic changes on our planet — and action is devoted a theme of ecology.

The green project

The primary goal of "green" projects — to create more dense green environment, to increase sensibleness of own contribution to emissions in atmosphere, stability of our future.

Harmless Vancouver construction

The concept "crop" is a vertical kitchen garden, as a matter of fact, where grow up vegetables, grasses, fruit, fish, plant chickens, goats and sheep. For work of all this economy renewed energy (the sun and a wind) is used. At top tanks for gathering and processing of rain water which can be applied to watering of uncountable internal and external gardens and lawns are placed.

Alternative skyscraper in New York

In the middle of financial buildings and inhabited towers the Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is intended to erect an alternative skyscraper. 132 floor complex will be constructed in the south of Roosevelt Island, symbolizing necessity of ecological stability. The main accent of this conceptual design — attempt to create completely a self-sufficient organism which processes energy of the sun, wind, water, and also can make food, in the middle of a megacity.

Alternative skyscrapers of the future

The system is concentrated round two basic towers. They are organized symmetrically, grow not only is horizontal, but also vertically, that is important for close Manhattan.

Conceptual skyscraper in Manhattan

The metal and glass wings inspired in the image of a dragon, become the house for plants and animals. Thanks to a favorable environment, the good sun and winds, at numerous levels where nutritious soils will be placed, plants will be grown up. External vertical gardens will eat rain water which after use will be mixed with a household waste, after subject to organic processing, for further use in a farm.

In space between wings warm air with which help the premise will be heated in the winter gathers; in the summer natural ventilation, and also evaporations from plants will cool air.